A5027573763- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Green IT and Sustainability
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Advanced Battery Technologies Research
- Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
- Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Software System Performance and Reliability
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
Paul Scherrer Institute
2021-2025
ETH Zurich
2022-2024
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
2022
Aalborg University
2017-2019
Prospective Life Cycle Assessment (pLCA) is useful to evaluate the environmental performance of current and emerging technologies in future. Yet, as energy systems industries are rapidly shifting towards cleaner means production, pLCA requires an inventory database that encapsulates expected changes environment at a given point time, following specific socio-techno-economic pathways. To this end, study introduces premise, tool streamline generation prospective databases for by integrating...
Abstract Cement plays a dual role in the global carbon cycle like sponge: its massive production contributes significantly to present-day anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, yet hydrated products gradually reabsorb substantial amounts of atmospheric (carbonation) future. The this sponge effect along cement (including production, use, and demolition) emissions mitigation, however, remains hitherto unexplored. Here, we quantify effects demand- supply-side mitigation measures considering...
Reducing the climate impacts of passenger cars has a high priority on political agenda, especially in EU. However, there is disagreement how this can best be achieved – with battery or fuel cell electric vehicles, rather combustion engine vehicles using electricity-based synthetic liquid fuels. To answer question and to quantify potential environmental co-benefits trade-offs, paper introduces carculator, Python library conduct life cycle assessments current future vehicles. Because...
Automotive electrification holds the promise of mitigating transportation-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet at expense growing demand for critical metals. Here, we analyze trade-off between decarbonization potential road transportation sector and its metal requirement from demand-side perspective in 48 major countries committing to decarbonize their sectors aided by electric vehicles (EVs). Our results demonstrate that deploying EVs with 40-100% penetration 2050 can increase...
The European aviation sector must substantially reduce climate impacts to reach net-zero goals. This reduction, however, not be limited flight CO2 emissions since such a narrow focus leaves up 80% of unaccounted for. Based on rigorous life-cycle assessment and time-dependent quantification non-CO2 impacts, here we show that, from technological standpoint, using electricity-based synthetic jet fuels compensating via direct air carbon capture storage (DACCS) can enable climate-neutral...
We quantified the life-cycle environmental impacts of H 2 production at regional and global levels for first time.
It is essential to provide quantitative decision support when pursuing environmental impact mitigation efforts, particularly considering resource and energy-demanding sectors such as the built environment. Life cycle assessment (LCA) provides widely recognized regarding performance. However, for long-lived products buildings, usefulness of conventional LCA limited it relies on databases that only give a current or past representation industrial processes. The emerging field prospective...
Cement production needs to reduce its contribution climate change urgently. This industry is, however, difficult electrify and decarbonize is yet expected increase output accommodate the need of an increasing population. CCS and, more recently, CCU have been presented as promising solutions align with Paris Agreement objectives. Given lack application these technologies at scale in cement production, it remains dubious under which conditions they can deliver reductions. In this study, we...
Carbon-neutral hydrogen (H2) can reduce emissions from hard-to-electrify sectors and contribute to a net-zero greenhouse gas economy by 2050. Power-to-hydrogen (PtH2) technologies based on clean electricity provide such H2, yet their carbon intensities alone do not sufficient basis judge potential contribution sustainable just energy transition. Introducing prospective life cycle assessment framework decipher the non-linear relationships between future technology system dynamics over time,...
In the race to achieve global climate neutrality, carbon intensive industries like clinker and cement industry are required decarbonize rapidly. The environmental impacts related potential transition pathways low-carbon systems can be evaluated using prospective life cycle assessment (pLCA). This study conducts a pLCA for future production, integrating long-term from IMAGE integrated model (IAM) maintain consistency. It systematically modifies ecoinvent v3.9.1 database Python library premise...
A prospective life cycle assessment was performed for global ammonia production across 26 regions from 2020 to 2050. The analysis based on the IEA Ammonia Roadmap and IMAGE electricity scenarios model three climate related a mean surface temperature increase of 3.5 °C, 2.0 1.5 °C by 2100. Combining these models with perspective new inventories improves ammonia's robustness, quality, applicability in assessments. It reveals that complete decarbonisation industry 2050 is unlikely because...
The transparent, flexible, and open-source Python library carculator_truck is introduced to perform the life cycle assessment of a series medium- heavy-duty trucks across different powertrain types, size classes, fuel pathways, years in European context. Unsurprisingly, greenhouse gas emissions per ton-km reduce as load factor increase. By 2040, battery cell electric appear be promising options on long distance segments, even where required range autonomy high. This requires that various...
Switzerland, such as most of the other countries which are part Paris agreement, decided to reduce GHG emissions zero by 2050. The ambition net-zero emission across all industrial sectors can only be achieved rapid decarbonization and deployment negative technologies compensate residual from for example agriculture. In scope this work, proof technology a value chain at scale in concrete sector is presented. core system mineralization technology, fixes biogenic CO 2 permanently calcium...
Abstract For light-duty vehicles (LDVs), alternative powertrains and liquid fuels based on renewable electricity are competing options considered by policymakers stakeholders for achieving necessary CO 2 emission reductions in the transport sector. While urgency of climate change need to reach mitigation targets well understood, system-wide implications along other sustainability dimensions further exploration. We integrate a detailed system model into an integrated assessment framework...
Given a fixed product system model, with the current computational framework of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) potential environmental impacts associated to demanding one thousand units will be times larger than what results from 1 unit only – linear relationship. However, due economies scale, industrial synergies, efficiency gains, and design, activities at different scales perform differently in terms life cycle impact non-linear way. This study addresses issue using LCA scalable emerging...